EMERSON'S WORKS. A new edition in 5 volumes, with the Text edited and collated by George Sampson.
∴ The contents of the volumes are as follows: Vol. I—Essays: Representative Men. Vol. II—English Traits: Conduct of Life: Nature. Vol. III—Society and Solitude: Letters and Social Aims: Addresses. Vol. IV—Miscellaneous Pieces. Vol. V—Poetical Works.
"Of all the Emerson editions that have from time to time made their entrance and their exit, I know of no superior to the edition that is just being issued from George Bell and Sons' publishing house."—Echo.
"Lovers of Emerson will readily acknowledge their immense indebtedness to the editor for so excellent an edition of the great essayist. . . .the finest edition of Emerson yet given to the world."—Aberdeen Journal.
GESTA ROMANORUM, or Entertaining Moral Stories invented by the Monks. Translated from the Latin, with Preliminary Observations and Copious Notes, by the Rev. Charles Swan, late of Catharine Hall, Cambridge. Revised edition, by Wynnard Hooper, B.A., Clare College, Camibridge.
GOETHE'S FAUST. Translated by Anna Swanwick, LL.D. Revised edition, with an Introduction and Bibliography by Karl Breul, Litt.D., Ph.D.
JAMESON'S SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES. Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical.
LAMB'S ESSAYS. Including the Essays of Elia, Last Essays of Elia, and Eliana.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, THE THOUGHTS OF. Translated by George Long, M.A. With an Essay on Marcus Aurelius by Matthew Arnold.
My quotations from Marcus Aurelius will be made (by permission) from the forcible and admirably-accurate translation of Mr. Long. In thanking Mr. Long, I may be allowed to add that the English reader will find in his version the best nieans of becoming acquainted with the purest and noblest book of antiquity."—Dean Farrar in Seekers after God.
MOTLEY'S RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC. With a Biographical Introduction by Moncure D. Conway. 3 vols.
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